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Section of highway collapses amid heavy rains in eastern California; 1 injured.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – An elevated section of the Interstate 10 highway collapsed Sunday amid heavy rains in a remote desert area of California, cutting off traffic between the state and Arizona and leaving a driver injured.
A bridge on eastbound I-10 across a normally dry desert wash about 50 miles (80 kilometres) west of the Arizona state line washed away, the California Highway Patrol said, blocking all traffic headed toward Arizona.
The westbound section of the freeway remained intact, but traffic was being stopped while it was inspected for safety.
The Riverside County Fire Department said it had to extract a driver who crashed in the collapse. The person was taken to a hospital with moderate injuries.
The rains came amid a second day of showers and thunderstorms in southern and central California that were setting rainfall records in what is usually a dry month.
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